Kievchess wins the Ukrainian Team Championship

6/8/2008 – There was no real battle for first place. The team Kievchess from, you guessed it, Kiev, took first place after a half-hearted challenge by the youngsters of a team called "Lviv University named by I. Franko”. One member of the victorious Kiev team is remarkable: FM Illya Nyzhnyk, rated 2397, who holds his own in blitz against grandmasters. Illya is eleven. Pictorial report by Anastasiya Karlovich.

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Kievchess wins the Ukrainian Team Championship

Pictorial report by Georgiy Arzumanian and Anastasiya Karlovich

This year the Ukrainian team championship was held in Alušta (Alushta), which
is a little town on the Crimean peninsula in the northern part of the Black
Sea.

The town was founded in the sixth century AD by Emperor Justinian. It is located
amongst the most romantic Crimean mountains: Roman-Kosh, Chatyr-Dag, Demerdji.
Alushta is a unique climatic health resort with mild subtropical climate, great
number of sunshine hours (2250 per year) and a long swimming season (from June
till October). A number of Ukrainian tournaments have been taken place there.

A view of Alushta from the surrounding mountains

Nine teams from different Ukrainian regions were fighting for medals. The struggle
for first place didn't take place. Nobody was able to stop the champion of 2007,
"Kievchess".

№

Teams

City

TPts

BPts

1

PVK – Kievchess

Kiev

15

39.5

2

Law Academy

Kharkiv

14

36.0

3

Lviv University I.Franko

Lviv

12

34.0

4

Bisons from Rivne

Rivne

10

26.0

5

Etud

Cherkasi

9

24.0

6

Podillia

Hmelnickiy

6

17.5

7

Donetsk region

Donetsk

4

20.5

8

Burevesnik

Simferopol

2

12.5

9

Crimea

Simferopol

0

6.0

The players from the team "Lviv University named by I. Franko” made
a desperate attempt but lost with a 5:1 score. “Law Academy” from
Kharkov didn't want to tempt fate and make a draw with team from Kiev, which
brought them to the second place.

The match between "Kievchess" and "Law Academy" ended
peacefully with a 3:3 score, as GM Sergey Karjakin (who picked up the baton
from Ruslan Ponomariov this year) drew against GM Moiseenko Olexandr on the
first board

The happy captain of “Kievchess” GM Vladimir Baklan, 2647

WIM Vita Chulivska, the only women participating in Ukrainian team championship.
There is no separate woman's team championship in Ukraine, and not even a women's
board as in France, Turkey and Greece.

The youngsters from “Lviv University named by I. Franko” took
third place

IM Vladimir Onischuk of “Law Academy” is no relative of Alexander,
but also plays solid chess

IM Nazar Firman, rated 2494, of “Law Academy”

GM Eduard Andreev from the team with dangerous name “Bisons from Rivne”

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